Protective top for stoves



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PROTECTIVE TOP FOR STOVES.

Application filed November 22, 1924. Serial No. 751,681.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. JULIA I'IAMILTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Protective Top for Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of my invention is to provide a protective top for gas ranges and the like, that will give the full advantage of the heat from the burners, but protect the grids around the burner and the pan below from grease or such substance from the cooking.

Another object is to provide in a protective top, apertures therethru to allow a full amount of air to reach the burners so as not to interfere with the combustion.

With these and incidental objects in view,

the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are hereinafter described with reference to the drawing which accompanies and forms a part of this specification.

' In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gas range, showing my invention applied thereto, and Figure 2 is a plan view of the protective top as it lays on the top of the range and with one corner broken off to better show its relation with respect to the burners.

As shown, the improved top is made of a piece of sheet metal 1, which has large apertures 2 therethru, properly spaced so that they will be concentric with the burners 3 and of such size that they will disclose the complete heating portion of the burners.

It is evident that such a covering will protect the grids 4 from grease that is thrown out from frying articles on the stove and will also protect from any substances that are boiled over in the process of cooking.

It is extremely difficult to clean the ordinary grid on a gasrange or an oil range a for that reason they are generally in a more or less dirty and unsanitary conditlon in the ordinary household.

While a removable pan is generally furnished below the burners to catch the substances that go thru the grids. so that the pan may be removed and these substances washed therefrom, these pans become more or less foul and dirty in use and because they are in general out of sight, they tend to be neglected.

With my improved protective top, however, the surface is always in view and can be readily cleaned by wiping or washing without removing the top from the stove.

As the top shuts off the direct air from the burners, it might in some case interfere with combustion and for that reason I have provided numerous apertures 5, around the apertures 2, so air can be drawndown therethru and brought to the burners so the gas will have sufiicient oxygen for complete combustion.

While I have described my invention and illustrated it in one particular design, I do not wish it understood that I limit myself to this construction, as it is evident that the application of the invention may be varied in many ways within the scope of the following claim.

Claim:

A protective top for stoves formed of a thin sheet of metal having large apertures therein adapted to be positioned concentric with the burners of the stove to which it is applied, and a plurality of smaller apertures positioned about each of the said larger apertures for allowing air to be drawn therethru for combustion in the burners, said top being adapted to lie fiat on the top of the stove so as not to raise the cooking utensils set thereon appreciably from their normal position when used without said top.

JULIA HAMILTON. 

